I haven’t used GraphQL, but..
These seem ok.
I’m not exactly sure if primary reason to use Cloudfront is eliminating any kind of bottlenecks.
I guess you are a bit paranoid, it should be fine. But remember that Phoenix can handle so many requests at once only if it has enough resources 
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Totally valid. You don’t lose any advantages if you use it purely for API.
Hi,
Any news since a year ago? Have you applied successfully the approach you described?
Below is the context/reason for my question:
I’m considering a career switch and I decided to use Elixir/Phoenix (OTP).
I want to build for sure web + mobile apps (maybe target also smart watch and maybe IoT?).
I think of building PWAs to span all targets with mainly 1 code base (as closely to native mobile apps for the mobile part of my target).
However, so far there’s no home-made front-end framework for Phoenix … except maybe LiveView but it doesn’t support offline scenario’s (so far - maybe BEAM in local? When? Or compile to WASM? Roadmap?).
So in order to stay with Elixir/Phoenix I feel forced to choose between:
I considered ELM, but there’s too much controversy around it (small user base, support?, LT-continuity? …).
So I’m looking at the alternatives - so many of them !!! (e.g. Xamarin (but forced to c#), Flutter?, React/Native (Javascript !), Corona?, AppCelerator? PhoneGap? …)
Vue seems to be the 2nd best choice (after LiveView if it were fully mature) to get up-and-running fast.
There’s a lot of tooling around it and it has nativescript …
What’s your advice, assuming you have used Vue+Phoenix in the mean time?
(advice from anyone is much appreciated)
I don’t know if this is going to be useful to you. But I will try anyway :D.
I have some experience using Vue and Phoenix. I chose Vue for the same reason that it will be easier to convert to a mobile app at some point. say using Nativescript. . I am also not a fan of Javascript, so I use Vue with Typescript, which works amazingly well.
Now coming to development, I am a fan of separating frontend from backend. This allows independent development of both and facilitates decoupling. Deploying Vue with Phoenix is easy. I just compile Vue to a single JS file and serve it using Nginx. So my index page shows Vue app. Vue calls into Phoenix using /api url. All calls to /api is redirected by nginx to my Phoenix listening on say port 4000. When combined with Docker, the deployment is also very pleasant. In case you are interested you can also check out my blog post for more info. Have a nice day 
Thanks a lot.
Sorry for my late reply, not about not being interested, I was drawn in work (despite lock down, lucky me).
I’ll certainly have a look at your blog post! Thanks for your post.
Lately LiveView is getting better and better … I’m wondering how long it will take before the “offline” issue is tackeled, and then we probably don’t need anything else anymore :-).